Replication of “Reapportionment and Redistribution: Consequences of Electoral Reform in Japan” (Yusaku Horiuchi, Jun Saito), American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 47, No. 4, pp. 669-682, October 2003. 

* Description: Does reapportionment in a legislature affect policy outcomes? We examine this question from a comparative perspective by focusing on reapportionment associated with the electoral reform in Japan. First, we show that the reform of 1994 resulted in an unprecedented degree of equalization in legislative representation. Second, municipal-level data, we present evidence that municipalities in overrepresented districts received significantly more subsidies per capita, as compared to those in underrepresented districts, in both pre reform and post reform years. Third, by examining the relationship between the change in the number os seats per capita and the change in the amount of subsidies per capita at the municipal level, we show that the equalization in voting strength resulted in an equalization of total transfers per person. 


* Files included in this package

- ReadMe.txt (this file)
- ajps2003.do (Stata do file)
- ajps2003.dta (Stata data file)
- ajps2003.csv (CSV File)

* Program: Stata Version 13.1

* Additional programs required: none

* Process of Replication:
	(1) Place ajps2003.do and ajps2003.dta in the same folder
	(2) Run ajps2003.do

* Most Recent Date of Successful Replication: February 8, 2015

* Data Description (See the paper for details; check the do file on how to generate variables used in this paper)

Contains data from ajps2003.dta
  obs:        61,845                          
 vars:            30                          10 Feb 2015 18:09
 size:    10,204,425                          

              storage   display    value
variable name   type    format     label      variable label

year            int     %9.0g                 Year
muncode         long    %9.0g                 Municipality Code (as of March 31, 1999)
kanji           str12   %12s                  Municipality Name (in Kanji)
F0017           long    %12.0g                Chiho Kofuzei Futsu Kofukin
F0018           int     %8.0g                 Chiho Kofuzei Tokubetsu Kofukin
F0023           long    %12.0g                Kokko Shishutsukin
F0100           long    %12.0g                Zaisei Shunyugaku
F0101           long    %12.0g                Zaisei Jyuyogaku
F0131           double  %9.0g                 Zaiseiryoku Shisu
P2000           float   %9.0g                 Jumin Kihon Daicho Jinko (End of FY)
C0217           float   %9.0g                 Kazei Taisho Syotoku
P0001           float   %9.0g                 Census: Population, Total
P0071           float   %9.0g                 Census: Population, DID
P0020           float   %9.0g                 Census: Population, 14 Years of Age or Younger
P0022           float   %9.0g                 Census: Population, 65 Years of Age or Older
P0096           float   %9.0g                 Census: Employment, Primary Sector
P0100           float   %9.0g                 Census: Employment, Secondary Sector
P0104           float   %9.0g                 Census: Employment, Tertiary Sector
area            float   %9.0g                 Area Size (in 1998)
ecode           byte    %9.0g                 Election Number 28-40
Mal             double  %9.0g                 District Magnitude per Million District Population
dm              double  %8.0g                 District Magnitude
torate          double  %9.0g                 District Turnout Rate
torateM         double  %9.0g                 Municipality Turnout Rate
LDPINC          double  %9.0g                 No. of LDP Incumbents
LDPVOTE         double  %9.0g                 No. of LDP Votes
LDPSS           double  %9.0g                 Seat Share, LDP
SHASASS         double  %9.0g                 Seat Share, JSP + Sakigake
HOSOKAWASS      double  %9.0g                 Seat Share, Ruling Parties in Hosokawa Coalition
LDPVS           double  %9.0g                 LDP District Relative Vote Share

Sorted by:  muncode  year



